To all Coupers and to Glen,
Carroll Young was at the EOC convention.
He is a delightful, 79 year old who has been at many Coupe conventions,
I met him in 91 at Loch Haven. I believe he was flying solo. Used to come to
the conventions from Chicago and recently moved to KY.
If there is any way we can protect his plane, and help him get it back
to his home for repairs it would be great.
I would be willing to drive to WV (from Central PA) and help get it
back to him. It sounds like it would have to be disassembled and
trailered.
Glen, is there security at the plane to avoid vandalism? Both the FAA
and sometimes the local national guard can help with that.
Lets do what we can to help Carroll with his problem.
WHat can we organize to help him??
Joe Loomis
At 02:51 PM 7/7/00 -0700, Glen Ward wrote:
>Here is the story. The picture shows a coupe with collapsed
nose gear up on
>the nose and wingtip, with the prop bent back. Caption-An
Ercoupe 415-C
>lies in a Preston County field where it crash-landed Monday.
The owner, of
>Kentucky, left the scene and has not been heard from.
>DOWNED PLANE NEWEST PRESTON ATTRACTION
>There's nothing much to do in this Southern Preston County town:
Watch the
>new bridge go up, see the occasional train go by or check out the
classic
>plane that crashed near
town. Residents of Scotch
Hill, just outside
>town, heard two plaens overhead Monday. It soudned to them
like two landed
>and one took off, but no one heard a crash, so they didn't call
PReston 911
>or police. There was a plane down,
though, a Ercoupe 415-C. The pilot
>walked away after an emergency landing on a strip mine, reportedly
called
>for a ride, and hasn't been seen since. Reports of the second
plane have
>not been confirmed. Jim Peters,
spoeksman for the FAA, said the FAA
>had a report of a landing for a 1946 Engineering and REsearch 415C
at Scotch
>Hill at 1225pm Monday. The landing was caused by a collapsed
nose gear on
>the airplane. (HUH?) From the
Dominion Post July 7. Anyhow, the
>story goes on to tell how it has become a local curiosity and the
plane hit
>a rusted railroad rail, throwing it to the side of the hill.
The traffic is
>damaging the grass on the mine reclamation and they are looking to
do
>something to get rid of the plane. The plane is
N2072H?, Carroll Young of
>KY. Then it goes into a good history of the
Ercoupe. Glen Ward
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S.N. 1035, (April 8, 1946)
40degrees 43'170" and 77degrees
57'690"
4836 W. Whitehall Rd.
Pa. Furnace, PA
16865
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